Chaucer's Bilingual Idiom.

Author / Editor
Braddy, Haldeen.

Title
Chaucer's Bilingual Idiom.

Published
Southern Folklore Quarterly 32 (1968): 1-6.

Description
Exemplifies Chaucer's "homely vocabulary" and "naturalistic choice of words," identifying roots in both French and native English, and commenting on instances of idiomatic phrases, rogues' speech, "zesty vocabulary," "oaths and imprecations," sexual language, etc.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies